Suddenly in recent years a handful of voices have emerged on social media with strong political ideas, thoughts and influences. These voices gathered a growing power...
It is pretty much clear now that Hrithik Roshan is no more a part of Farah Khan’s remake of Raj N Sippy’s 1982 semi-hit Satte Pe Satta....
There are reports in a section of the press on Farhan Akhtar and his girlfriend tying the knot in 2020. The imaginative though alas, grosly misleading story even sets a time...
Telugu superstar Allu Arjun is on Cloud Nine. His latest film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo has opened to record crowds. “It is likely to be my career’s biggest hit so far. What can I ...
The Oscar nominations announced on Monday proved a blessing in disguise for Reliance Entertainment. 1917, the harrowing majestic World War 1 drama walked away with major nominations...
India’s most prolific filmmaker Priyadarshan is not happy with the voices of protest being raised in the film industry against the Government’s Citizens’ Amendment Act(CAA). “What have film...
Mahesh Babu: “Pongal this year comes to us with mixed feelings. While we’re very happy about the opening of my new film Sarileru Neekevvaru, there has been a death...
Politics has finally and irrevocably entered our cinema. This is proven by the abysmally low boxoffice figures for Chhapaak Meghna Gulzar’s much talked-about tale of an acid-attack survivor’s fight for justice....
Bombshell Starring Carlize Theron. Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow Directed by Jay Roach Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) Why is Bollywood not making a single film about sexual...
Veteran actress Raakhee Gulzar is her super-talented daughter Meghna Gulzar’s biggest critic. This is one parent who won’t indulge in futile flattery. Raakheeji refused to watch the film in any of the...
It is common knowledge in the film industry that Ajay Devgan and director Anubhav Sinha can’t stand one another since they worked together in a flop caper named Cash in 2007. The ...
History has again ,repeated itself when on Saturday .Shahid Kapoor while shooting for Gowtam Tinnanuri’s Jersey, the Hindi remake of the director’s Tamil hit of the same title, injured himself on...
Ranveer Singh, known for his outlandish fashion sense, has worn a skirt more than once in public. Now it’s the more conservative dresser Varun Dhawan’s turn to don a ...
Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (Telugu) Starring Allu Arjun, Tabu, Jairam, Sushant,Pooja Hegde Written & Directed by Trivikram Srinivas Rating: ****(4 stars) When it comes to South Imdian screen icons, their larger-than-life image far supercedes the calibre, heft and tenability of the...
By now it is common knowledge in the Mumbai film industry that Sushant Singh Rajput is “very serious’ about starlet Rhea Chakraborty. What is not so...
Alia Bhatt is in the midst of the most challenging role of her career in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangaubai Kathiawadi. And here are some things you won’t...
Sarileru Neekevvaru Starring Mahesh Babu, Vijayashanthi, Rashmika Mandanna, Prakash Raj Directed by Anil Ravipudi Rating:*** ½ (3 and a half stars) Mahesh Babu has always been the poster-boy for cinema with a relevant theme and contemporary topic.This ...
In this business of brittle relationships and broken dreams it is easy to forget that Kajol and Ajay Devgan have been married for 20 years . They have co-starred in...
The very fact that a film on Malala Yousafzai is being brought to the screen is reason to rejoice. Director H. E Amjad Khan’s ambitious bio-pic Gul Makai takes on the Taliban in...
Chhapaak Starring Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey, Directed by Meghna Gulzar Rating: *****(5 stars) What a splash Meghna Gulzar makes with Chhapaak! This sensitive stunning film about a real-life acid-attack victim’s attempt to rebuild her life as ...
Tanhaji(3D) Starring Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol, Neha Sharma,Sharad Kelkar Directed by Om Raut Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) There is a pall of déjà vu shrouding this lavish though self-limited homage...
No Good Newzz in 2020 either for Akshay. In 2019 Akshay Kumar was brutally trolled for various reasons including his Canadian citizenship . It looks like 2020 too has begun on...
In India making films on real-life characters , specially those who are alive, is becoming almost impossible. Meghna Gulzar and her producers faced their share of legal hassles...
Darbar Starring Rajinikanth, Suneil Shetty, Nayanthara, Directed by A R Murugadoss Rating: **(2 stars) What do you expect from a Rajinikanth film? Well, you have all of it here, then some more. ...
This month on Jan 10-11 three Bollywood personalities I’ve known closely over the years and one of whom I no longer know or want to know, turned a year older within 24...
It has been a while since Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani have been a couple, though they are yet come in the ope.Mutual friends say the dishy Disha is an extremely...
When the iconic Rajnikanth roars into a film directed by one of Tamil cinema’s most formidable names, there is bound to be an added pressure. The very ...
It look like the process of polarization on ideological, if not religious grounds, has started in our film industru. Director Raaj Shaandilyaa who directed the hit Ayushman Khurrana film Dream Girl in 2019,...
Friday January 10 is a red-letter day for the Hindi film industry. Three major Hindi films –Meghna Gulzar’s eagerly awaited real-life biopic Chhapaak, Ajay Devgan’s historical Tanhaji and the...
While many in the film fraternity like Anurag Kashyap and Dia Mirza are openly praising Deepika Padukone for her visit to the lately-vandalized Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in Delhi, others are not so happy with what they see...
Vijay Deverakonda is going places. Mumbai, to be exact. He is currently in the city as Karan Johar’s guest of honour, trying out his new look for his next film Fighter which Karan will co-produce ...
Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns as director , this time to tell his own story. Like him, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were overnight rendered homeless when on 19 January 1990, sectarian violence...
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against Quentin Tarantino’s cinema. They have invented a brutal bloodied toxic language of expression which suits today’s restless movie...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is currently shooting in Thailand for Mani Ratnam’s Tamil period-historical drama Ponniyin Selvan. This is Aishwarya’s fourth collaboration with the remarkable Ratnam, and unarguably the almost ambitious collaboration.No other...
If you’ve seen Netflix’s horror omnibus Ghost Stories you can’t help but notice the young striking actor who plays the lead in the Karan Johar-directed segment. Avinash...
The trailer of Mohit Suri’s Malang is like a rollercoaster ride …on Speed. The images are deliberately done in distinctive blotchy colours to show minds on the brink.Producer Luv Ranjan says Malang is the most...
Barring Good Newzz at the end of 2019, all the other productions of Karan Johar during the last year were failures, putting Johar’s company Dharma Productions on its backfoot. One hears Karan Johar is doing some...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s under-production Gangubai Kathiawadi is turning out to be a learning experience for Alia Bhatt in ways that she had never imagined. Not only did she have to change...
Ghost Stories is the third in a franchise series that started in 2013 when Bombay Talkies featuring the Fab Four Filmmakers Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap who were all at their brilliant best....
Sunny Kaushal Bhangra dancing in the dance extravaganza Bhanga Paa Le is in one word, extraordinary. The young actor who happens to be Vicky Kaushal’s sibling, dances the Bhangra like a dream. “It wasn’t easy,...
Both legends beyond all definition, Kishore Kumar and Madhubala , once married, are now joined together in an unexpected way. The bio-pics on their lives are stuck due to the intervention...
Doing retro numbers has become more a norm than an exception in our films. 2-films old Sara Ali Khan has already danced with Ranveer to an...
The mystery of the legendary Sridevi’s death in the bathtub just got a little less baffling . In a new interesting biography on the mythical actress ...
Ghost Stories (Netflix) Starring: Janhvi Kapoor, Surekha Sikri, Vishal Verma, Shobita Dhulipula, Sukant Goel, Avinash Tiwary, Mrunal Thakur Directed by: Zoya Akhtar,Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) After hearing the distinguished quartet of directors and its excitable cast raving...
Shimla Mirchi Starring Hema Malini,Rajkummar Rao, Rakul Preet Singh Directed by Ramesh Sippy Rating: **(2 stars) Rajkummar Rao never fights shy of playing shy characters. There is an innate diffidence in his personality that renders itself effectively...
Sab Kushal Mangal Starring Akshaye Khanna, Pariyank Sharma, Riva Kishan Directed by Karan Vishwanath Kashyap Rating: ***(3 stars) Smalltown romances have flooded our movie-viewing bandwidth , so much so that it becomes difficult to tell Tanu Weds Manu apart from Bareilly Ki Barfi. The ...
When the first trailer of Megha Gulzar’s anxiously-awited bio-pic on acid-attack survivor Laxmi Aggarwal made its appearance , people wondered why the real-life survivor was not to be seen anywhere. Wagging tongues...
Real-life characters are the flavour of the new decade. As everyone grabs every opportunity to play authentic characters, here is my pick of the lot. 1. Deepika Padukone as Laxmi Aggarwal ...
Gully Boy rapper Siddhant Chaurvedi has ably wrapped up the ongoing debate on nepotism in the film industry . In an interview with Rajeev Masand featuring the most promising newcomers ...
It is rather sad when women don’t support their own kind. The very spunky and extremely talented Tahira Kashyap who also happens to be actor Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife, was all set...
